I'm implementing a plug-in interface and I want to allow plug-ins to
add menu items to the host application's menu bar. I've given them a
public method that is passed a ToolStripMenuItem but it seems that you
can't /copy/ these things. You can only move them.

Almost every application have to write out some messages to the user.
The question is how to store them. For example, while programming for
Windows in C++ we could store these messages as string resource and
load them using LoadString API function. I'm quite new to C#, and the

I have one database for which I have developed windows applications. In
the same time I want to continue to develop other applications or
update old ones. For this I need a database different from the previous
for debug. But after I change the debug database I have to synchronize

I would to list all devices on computer using IrDAHints Enumeration and  I
need to use the Assembly:  System.Net.IrDA (in system.net.irda.dll) but when
I try to include this with the 'using' command I get the error that I may be
missing an assembly reference. Additionally, when I ...

I will do several things in my thread:
   Copy a file to a location
   Update database record
   Read the file content

If we want to register a service on a reomte host with C++, we call API
OpenSCManager/CreateService to do the job. But with C#, how to do it? Are
there any relevant classes to help?
Thanks in advance

I tried to use a thread to process a iterative execution of processes but
afraid my thread is not thread-safe.
If I am not using a thread, my main form will become 'white' when switch
forth and fro between other applications. So now I tried

There are several pages that occasionally start throwing
System.OutOfMemoryException and "The type initializer for
"Microsoft.Practices.EnterpriseLibrary.Data.Instrumentation.DataCommandFailedEvent
exception."

I know MsDN is good, but I love a good book.  Anyone know any good
boks on C#/.NET threading/concurreny?
Kev

i want to know usage of static methods in a class.
is it advantageous or disadvantage to use more static methods in a class.
thank u

    when I debug my project , it gives back me a error message, but I can't
fix it.
project XXXX.exe encountered unhandled exception class
System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException with message 'class not

I am not sure if this is the right group but I have a web control
within a page and I am trying to access a method from the control. My
master page is set as :
public partial class _Default : System.Web.UI.Page

I have a Windows Form app that does some work in a BackgroundWorker.
I'd like to append information to a textbox from within the
BackgroundWorker but it keeps telling me that I can't do this across
threads.

I would like to read cells from an excel document. Does anyone have a smple
of code for that please?
Thanks

I need to print a report from the VS2005 Reportviewer control.  My problem
is that I need to print to a tractor feed (dotmatix like) printer that is not
the default printer - for printing mailing labels (thousands of them).  I can
set all the settings from the pagelayout button ...